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The 

Dun'vega.n 

a.nd 

Montrose 

Apartment 

Hotels 




r^^DUNVEGAN 
^^/..MONTROSE 

BEING A DESCRIPTION of 
the APARTMENT HOTELS 
just erected on the corner of 
MASSACHUSETTS AVE. & 
SHEPARD ST., CAMBRIDGE 
li^t^ith Sundry Pictures and ^lans 




CAMBRIDGE PRINTED FOR THE 
OWNER BY WILL BRADLEY AT 
THE UNIVERSITY PRESSiSgg 



Copyright^ rSgg, h 
William G. MacLeod 



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FOR EWORD 





Dia.gram 
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Loca.tion 
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(2) Mont rose 






FOREWORD 

HE object of this 
little book is to in- 
troduce the new 
Cambridge apart- 
ment hotel s, t h e 
Dunz'cgan and the 
M o/i trose, w h i c h 
offer to prospective 
tenants a combination of advantages un- 
equalled in Cambridge, and considering 
their moderate rental, unsurpassed in 
Boston or the surburban districts. 

Cambridge has many attractions as a 
place of residence. Among these are its 
splendid historic and literary traditions ; 
its exceptional educational advantages by 
reason of its fine public and private schools 
and as the seat of Harvard University and 
Radcliffe College ; its fine residences, 
churches, clubs, parks, and public drives ; 
its proximitv and easv access to Boston ; 
and the moral standing, general intelli- 
gence, and refinement of its people. 



The 

Dun-Tjegan 
and 
Montrose 



Residential 
Attractions 
of 
Cambridge 




FOREWORD 

Location The Dunvegan and the Montrose, 
standing as they do at the ccjrner of 
Massachusetts Avenue and Shepard Street, 
have a location that is unsurpassed in the 
city. The electric cars, which run every 
two or three minutes, stop at the door. 
The trip to Bowdoin Square or to Park 
Street Station is made in about thirtv 
minutes, or bv steam cars from Porter 
Station in about fifteen minutes. The 
location is also just at the meeting-place 
of the finest old residential section and the 
finest new. In the im.mediate neighbor- 
hood are the streets, houses, and historic 
spots made famous by their associations 
with the great men and the great events 
of the past. Two blocks distant is the 
old Cambridge Common, "the first camp- 
ground of the Revolution." on one side 
of which stands Radcliffe College and on 
the other Harvard University. By this 
proximitv an opportunity is given of at- 
tending the public lectures, readings, and 
concerts given under the auspices of the 
University, and of seeing and hearing the 
many noted visitors to the University 
both from this countrv and from abroad. 



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HE DUN VEGAN Name 

deri\es its name 
from D u n V e g a n 
Castle, one ot the 
oldest and most 
noted historic castles 
of Scotland. No 
attempt has been 
made to follow the outlines of this old 
feudal castle, but the same feeling of 
strength, solidity, and massive dignity has 
in a large measure been reproduced. 
The coat of arms of the castle has been 
introduced into the stained glass windows, 
and its mottoes **Hold fast" and "Murus 
aheneus esto " (Stand like a bulwark) 
ma\' fitly stand as the keynote o'i the 
building's construction. 




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The building 
is six stories in 
height, with a 
frontage of 
eighty-five feet 
on Massachu- 
setts Avenue. 
The foundation 
is of granite, 
and the walls of 
the best light 
gray mottled 
bricks and Indi- 
ana limestofie ; 
the timbers are 
supported by 
iron pillars; the 
framework is 
as stanch and 
strong as it was 
Size and possible to make it ; and only the best 
Materials seasoned and most carefully selected woods 
were used, so as to avoid the possibility 
of sagging, shrinkage, or vibration. 
Light, Air, From the accompanying floor plans 
and VieTv prepared by the architect, Mr. Willard 
M, Bacon, it will be seen that, with the 
exception of a common entrance, each 
half of the hotel is virtually a building 
bv itself, and every room an outside room. 




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admitting abundance ot 
light and air. The 
windows of the upper 
stories afford a view in 
all directions that for 
extent and beauty can 
scarcely be surpassed. 

The outer and inner 
vestibule are finished 
throughout in Siena 
marble, with mosaic 
floors, and with massive 
carved mahogany doors 
and casings, surrounded 
at the top and on either 
side by stained glass 
windows. The hall on 
the first floor has a dado 
of Siena marble, which 

extends up the stairway to the floor Ha.Us a.nd 
above. The doors and casings are ot ^i^^^^ 
mahogany, and the floors ot mosaic. The 
front stairway from the first to the second 
story is of mahogany, with marble treads. 
All other stairs, hall floors, doors, and 
casings are of quartered oak. The halls 
are abundantly lighted by double win- 
dows of leaded glass on each floor, open- 
ing into the central court. 




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Decorations 



Efevator 



The wall decorations are from original 
designs specially prepared for this build- 
ing by Mr. Will Bradley, and put on 
under his supervision. 

The building is furnislied with an 
automatic electric elevator, which is pro- 
vided with appliances for convenience 
and safety that represent the highest reach 
hitherto attained in elevator construction. 
The cage and grill-work being of antique 
bronze, make a handsome appearance. 
This elevator is in charge of a competent 
person at all times. 



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Bes ides the 
electric bells and 
speaking-tubes in 
the vestibule for 
each suite, there is 
an annunciator in 
charge of the jani- 
tor, with speaking- 
tubes that connect 
with each suite 
and enable everv 
tenant to call and 
converse with the 
janitor. 

The building is thoroughly wired for Bells, 
electric lights, and piped for gas, and fur- r-rf' ^ 
nished with handsome gas and electric 
fixtures. 

The heating is what is known as the Healing 
low-pressure, hot-water system. With two 
hot-water boilers of over ten thousand 
feet capacity it is possible to bid defiance 
to the coldest winter. Radiators are 
placed in all rooms, and an equable tem- 
perature is maintained through the entire 
building. There is also a separate plant 
which furnishes all kitchens and bath- 
rooms with an abundant supplv of hot 
water at all hours and at all seasons of the 
year. 



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Basements The basement contains the janitor's 
apartments, bicycle room, and rooms for 
the storage of trunks and furniture. 
Number and The building contains twelve family 
Stze of suites of ten rooms and bath, and twelve 
c>uites bachelor suites of two rooms and bath. 
The large suites consist of parlor, recep- 
tion-room, librarv, dining-room, four 
chambers, kitchen and servant's chamber, 
bath-room, servant's water-closet, and 
butler's pantrv. The rooms are of ample 
size and convenient arrangement. With 
suites oi this size the conveniences of an 
apartment hotel are put within the reach 



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2d, 3d, 4th, 
5th, and 6th 
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of people who desire the spacious accom- 
modations that are ordinarily found only 
in a private house. 

The kitchen and butler's pantry are Kitchen 
finished in cypress and ash, with hard- ^nd Pantry 
wood floors, and equipped with sink, set 
tubs, and a gas range. The kitchen, like 
the other rooms, is heated by a radiator, 
and furnished with hot water from the 
basement plant, A small room opens 
from the kitchen which is designed for 
a refrigerator and other uses which will 
suggest themselves to the practical house- 
keeper. The back stairway is provided 
with a lift, and each suite has a back 



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Kitchen piazza with hooks tor drying clothes. 
ana r^ntry "-pY^Q servant's chamber and water-closet 
being entered from the kitchen are thus 
kept distinct from the rest of the suite. 
The butler's pantrv has abundant shelf 
and drawer room, and cupboards provided 
with patent barrel-swings. 
Dining-Room The dining-room, in keeping with its 
importance in the domestic economy, is 
the largest and in some ways the most at- 
tractive room in the suite. It is finished 
in quartered oak, with a handsome panelled 
dado rubbed dowm to a didl finish. The 
floor is of oak, and is provided with an 
electric foot-button communicating with 



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tlie kitchen. The 
room has a china 
closet, with draw- 
ers, shelves, and 
sliding doors of 
leaded glass. It has 
also a brick mantel 
and an open fire- 
place, which may 
be used either for 
wood or a gas log. 

The other rooms 
are finished in white with a hard-pine Other 
floor in the corridor and oak floors in the Rooms 
entrance-hall, parlor, library, and recep- 
tion-room. The parlor has an open fire- 
place, with a mantel and ornamental tiling. 
Care has been taken to lay out the rooms 
so as to permit of a proper disposition of 
the furniture and the best utilization of 
wall space. 

A special feature of the building is the Bath Rooms 
large bath-rooms, with dados of solid tiling, 
mosaic floors, porcelain bath-tubs, bowls 
of Italian marble, medicine closets with 
adjustable shelves, and bevelled French 
plate mirrors, the best water-closets ob- 
tainable, and the finest open nickelled 
plumbing. Like all other rooms in the 
building they are outside rooms, and in 



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size and appearance as well as in sanitary 
qualities they are up to the very highest 
standard. 
Closets Closet room, which is such an important 
practical feature in every apartment, has 
been generously provided. Besides a 
closet in each ot the five chambers, there 
is a closet off the bath-room, a coat closet, 
and a linen closet opening from the cor- 
ridor, and a very large closet off the en- 
trance-hall. All closets are provided with 
shelves and hooks. 
Windo'ivs The chambers have two windows, and 
all parlors, libraries, and dining-rooms have 
large bay windows commanding a view 
of the avenue. Most of the windows are 



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over five feet in width, and each sash con- Windows 
tains a single light of heavy French plate, 
bent glass being used in the bavs. All 
windows are flirnished with linen curtains 
of a uniform specially selected tint. 

Perhaps no other item outside the fur- W^ll 
nishing of a room does so much to deter- Papers 
mine its character and render it attractive 
as the proper selection of wall papers. 
The cost of the papers in this building 
and the painstaking care devoted to their 




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^^^ll selection greatly exceeds the ordinary stan- 
Papers dard for such work. T.he papers show 
the newest and most artistic designs and 
colorings — many ot them exclusive — in 
satin-finished papers, hand prints, aniline 
dves, silk ingrains, French tapestries, and 
other choice domestic and imported goods. 
No two papers in the building are alike, 
and care has been taken to preserve a 
proper color-scheme for adjoining rooms 
and a unity of motive throughout each 
suite. 
Bachelor Besides the twelve iamily suites there 
SuUes are twelve bachelor suites of two rooms 
and a bath. These rooms are all in the 
front of the building overlooking Massa- 
chusetts Avenue, and are finished in white 
with an adamant dado and hard-wood 
floors. The bath-room is in every de- 
tail finished in the same haiulsome manner 
as the bath-room in the larger suites. Each 
suite has a large closet, and is provided 
with a separate gas and electric light meter, 
and with bells and-speaking tubes connect- 
ing with the vestibule and with the janitor's 
apartments. 
Telephone There is also a long-distance telephone 
for the Wqq use ot the tenants in the 
building. 



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HE MONTROSE StmiUrity 

adjoins the Dunve- *^ ^^^ 

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setts Avenue, and is 
a companion build- 
ingtoit. Thebuild- 
ings are twentv-iive 
feet apart, and con- 
nected by a subway. They are of the 
same height, of about the same size, are 
built of the same materials, and while dif- 
fering in detail, have the same general 
architectural appearance. The vestibules 
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Interkr, Montrose are finished in Siena marble and 
ttmsh mahogany with mosaic floors, and all other 
halls and stairs in quartered oak in the same 
manner as the Dunvegan. The elevator 
and hot-water heating are of similar con- 
struction ; the plumbing is the same ; the 
bath-rooms are similarly finished in solid 
tiling and mosaic, and equipped with the 
same bowls, closets, and bath-tubs, and 
with a constant supply of hot water; the 
wood-work, mantels, windows, closets, 
hard- wood floors, painting, papering, 
lighting, electric bells, and speaking-tubes, 
and in general all the details of interior 



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construction, are the work of the same 
contractors and are of the same standard 
of excellence as in the Dunvegan. 

The Montrose differs from the Dunve- Mtnor 
gan mainlv in having no bachelor suites. Differences 
Each of its twelve suites consists of ten 
rooms and a bath of about the same size 
and substantially the same arrangement as 
in the Dunvegan. In the Montrose, how- 
ever, one chamber opens into an interior 
light-well ; and the parlor and library, 
instead of being separated by the recep- 
ticn-room, open direcdy into each other, 
and both face upon the avenue. The 



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suites on the south 
side of this build- 
ing are particularly 
desirable on account 
ot their sunnv ex- 
posure and attrac- 
tive out-look. 

In the Montrose 
as in the Dunvegan, 
while no expense 
has been spared 
in the interests of 
thoroughness and 
perfection, the aim 
has been to present an appearance of 
richness and refinement such as a man 
of wealth and culture would desire to 
have in his private house but which is 
not ordinarilv seen in a building of this 
nature. 

All persons, whether prospective tenants 
or not, are cordiallv invited to come and 
be shown through these buildings, which 
must be seen to be properlv appreciated. 

The moderate prices for which it has 
been found possible to rent these suites 
ought to pro\'e not their least attractive 
feature. Terms and further particulars 
may be had from the janitor on the prem- 
ises or by addressing the owner, William 



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G. MacLeod, The Dunvegan, Cambridge 
from whom copies of this book may be had 
for the asking. 





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